Research Bytes
Practical insights you can actually use? Each Research Byte is a short video (around 5 minutes) that breaks down a single idea—like how haltere-style hand-held loading can enhance jump performance—into simple, actionable takeaways.

Practical insights you can actually use? Each Research Byte is a short video (around 5 minutes) that breaks down a single idea—like how haltere-style hand-held loading can enhance jump performance—into simple, actionable takeaways.
✔️ Bite-sized, research-informed videos
✔️ Practical ideas for coaching, rehab, and performance
✔️ Lifetime access, learn anytime
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Here are all the Research Bytes that are included in your bundle.
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Landing forces are the forces typically associated with injury. Find out how you can reduce these forces with a single session of feedback.
$5
All Courses, Free, Enhancing Muscular Performance
Summarises research on sled pull profiling, outlining how sled pull performance varies with load and velocity, and offering evidence‑based insights into force‑velocity characteristics to inform sprint and strength‑speed training.
Free
All Courses, Free, Enhancing Muscular Performance
Summarises research on jump‑landing mechanics and performance, outlining key evidence on landing forces, movement characteristics, and how jump‑landing assessments inform training, injury risk and performance understanding.
Free
All Courses, Free, Enhancing Muscular Performance
Summarises research on hip extension, outlining how hip extension actions influence muscle activation, force, and performance outcomes, with evidence‑based insights for strength and conditioning programming.
Free
All Courses, Free
Summarises research on grip strength during the IMTP, outlining how grip influences isometric mid‑thigh pull performance and offering evidence‑based insights into its role in force output and strength testing.
Free
All Courses, Free, Enhancing Muscular Performance
Summarises evidence on eccentric exercise for hamstring injury, outlining how eccentric training influences hamstring injury prevention and rehabilitation with research‑based insights for conditioning and recovery.
Free
Backward walking and running are unique forms of locomotion with injury-resistance and performance benefits. A key feature is minimal stretch-shorten cycle involvement, which maximises overload of the contractile component.
$30
Why do power athletes cycle this type of training into their periodized plan? It might have something to do with the influence of this type of training on the quality and quantity of connective tissues that contribute to force production...
$30
Wearable resistance is strength training using light loads attached to the body. It lets athletes build strength within normal training (e.g. sprinting) rather than separately. Learn the research, benefits, programming, and its use for speed developm
$30
Access: 12 months | This self-paced, online learning course provides a grounding in medical diagnostic imaging concepts for the Cardiorespiratory and Central Nervous Systems.
$120
Watch this pre-recorded CRPS Webinar | Access for 12 months. Dr Tracey Pons, PhD, NZRPS (Pain) presents the diagnostic criteria for a CRPS diagnosis and a conceptual clinical model for the Physiotherapy management of CRPS.
$20
Access: 4 months | A comprehensive, online course suitable for any physiotherapist who wants to upskill in the assessment and management of cervical neuro-musculoskeletal disorders.
$210
Access: 12 months. | Digestive system, Cardiovascular system, Respiratory system, Genitourinary system, Endocrine system, Medications, Clinical reference sheets.
$50
Access: 12 months| Designed for physiotherapists who have graduated recently or are starting to learn management of back pain patients. You will learn practical hands-on assessment & management that goes beyond international guideline principles.
$160
Four Sport and Exercise Webinars for just NZD $25. Access 12 months │ Learning time 1 hour each │ CPD certificates provided.
$25
$20 | Access: 12 months | A long-held belief in musculoskeletal injury management is that ACL tears never heal. This misconception is now being heavily questioned. Hear the latest evidence and the implications this has for the management of ACL tears
$20
$20 | Access: 12 months | Kylie Cox presents an overview for Physiotherapists on the special considerations of the female athlete in musculoskeletal injury management.
$20
Cost: $20 NZD | Access 12 months | Listen to Chelsea Lane talk about challenges for the sports physiotherapist and what is your hidden ‘super-power’ when it comes to decision-making in pressure situations.
$20
FREE | Access 12 months | Scapula dyskinesis can be ‘tricky’ to treat and some people have persistent pain or shoulder instability despite extensive treatment. Is sensory perception the forgotten link in rehabilitation?
Free
Cost: $20 NZD | Access 12 months | Is osteoarthritis due to ‘wear and tear’? Is running bad for OA? What should we be telling our patients and what can physiotherapy do?
$20
Cost: $10 NZD | Access 12 months | Learn about diagnosis - new imaging techniques, the decision-making process regarding surgical vs non-surgical management and rehabilitation and return-to-sport guidelines for athletes with lumbar stress injuries.
$20
Cost: $20 | Access: 12 months | In this webinar, Eloise dives into what makes children different and talks about specific conditions, growth factors and injuries, and how you might assess and manage them.
$20
FREE | Access: lifetime of site| This webinar is an introduction to force plates for physiotherapists with practical examples of force plate analysis of jump performance and clinical applications for rehabilitation in sports and community practice.
Free
FREE | Access: 12 months | In this webinar, Chelsea talks about Vice President of Athletic Performance and Sports Medicine (Atlanta Hawks) managing high performance physio, S and C and support teams in the NBA.
Free
Cost: $20 NZD | Access: 12 months | In this webinar Dr Ian Horsley presents considerations for return to playtesting for the shoulder when considering returning to sport. CDP Certificate and handouts included.
$20
Cost: $20.00 NZD | Access: 12 months | Dr Ian Horsley discusses the management of ACJ traumatic injuries and the differential diagnosis, along with rehabilitation strategies that include the scapula and thoracic spine.
$20
Professor, Strength and Conditioning, AUT University Head of Research, Lila Movement Technology
Hi I am John Cronin, AKA JC and I am a Professor in Strength and Conditioning. I am primarily an educator, researcher and mentor. I have two passions – one related to improving human movement, athleticism and sporting performance via strength and conditioning, and the other related to sharing this information with others.